Wairoa Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 Part 1
Blueprints
English - August 05, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBPolitics News History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no. They were locked out 3 times in 5 years. This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage.
We spoke with;
Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegateSimon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers UnionFollow 1/200 on Twitter (@1of200podcast), and host Huw Morgan (@huwcmorgan) or (@blueprintspod)
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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music
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